FactCheck Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award

We are happy to announce that the staff of FactCheck.org has won a 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Our coverage of deceptive claims about the federal health care legislation was selected by the judges for the non-deadline reporting award for independent news sites.

SPJ says it fielded more than 1,400 entries in several categories for print, radio, television and online work. Our entry included the following five articles from 2010: